Banking Committee Votes To Subpoena Italian Official

ON THE RECORD - NATIONAL

November 5, 1993

WASHINGTON — The House Banking Committee voted unanimously Thursday to subpoena Italy's former ambassador to Washington to testify about U.S. aid to Iraq channeled through an Italian bank. The former ambassador, Rinaldo Petrignani, meanwhile, surrendered to Italian police Thursday for questioning by prosecutors as part of a widening corruption probe across Italy.